Quotes about Corrupt

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Harper's Weekly

[Describing Abraham Lincoln:] Filthy story-teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.

Edward Abbey

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Barry Goldwater

the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life.

Referring to Richard M. Nixon:

Pat Buchanan

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

Characterizing Martin Luther King Jr.:

John N. Mitchell

Find the corrupt officials and then prosecute them and send them to prison!

A few years later Mitchell himself was convicted and sent to prison.

Taylor Swift

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Paula White

I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.

Charles Dickens

There are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way

Felix Adler

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Carl Hulse

There has been a sea change in the way Democrats view and talk about the Supreme Court. Democrats used to respectfully disagree with the justices. Now they call them illegitimate and corrupt, partisan and extreme.

Giordano Bruno

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

Kevin J. Anderson

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

Branch Rickey

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

John Ralston Saul

Civilizations do not collapse because the citizenry are corrupt or lazy or anti-intellectual. These people do not have the power and influence to either lead or destroy. Civilizations collapse when those who have power fail to do their jobs.

Alexander Hamilton

A man of irregular and insatiable ambition ...who ought not be trusted with the reins of government

For this and other “insulting” remarks, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in 1804 and killed him. However, the result was that Hamilton’s view of Burr was given huge publicity and Burr’s political career died along with Hamilton.